Excerpt from The Shack Locker: Yarns of the Deep Sea Fishing FleetsWinslow looked up from the chart with just a trace of anxiety in his clean-cut face. It is the skipper aboard a fishing vessel who does all the worrying, not the men, and fog gives him more concern than the wildest winds that blow. Closing the drawer he pulled on his oilskins and after a glance at the barometer hovering on the thirty, went upon deck. Pacing the quarter, a shadowy figure hailed him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.